Liam Clarke wrote:
>>>example of (1):
>>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>>#this part of the program reads the file basin.out (the data we want to
>>>analyze) and changes its contents to the array arr_xy
>>>#layout of basin.out:
>>>#1 -950.00 10.00 200 > this line contains start, interval and
>>>number of x values;
>>># 0.000000E+00 > remainder is a column of y values
>>># -1.931787E-07
>>># -5.713295E-07
>>># -9.322559E-07
>>># -1.071361E-06
>>># -7.801342E-07
>>># .....
>>start = int(float(list[1]))
>>interval = int(float(list[2]))
>>n = int(float(list[3]))
>>> list[1] is a string, so if I'm not missing something, start =
> int(list[1]) will do just fine.
No, because list[1] is '-950.00' which will not parse as an int.
Kent